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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Subject: Re: Unable to delete remote branch with a strange name
Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2010 09:40:22 +0100
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Jingzhao Ou <jingzhao.ou@gmail.com> writes:

> I guess somehow, git is confused by "origin/dev/main" and 
> "origin/remotes/origin/dev/main". Especially, it cannot identify the latter
> properly.

Try fully qualifying the remote branch (beginning with refs/heads/).

Andreas.

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